IT was my original intention to offer a thesis on
certain logical aspects of the theory of modern English
verse, following lines suggested by Mayor's Chapters on
English Metre and Bridges' Milton's Prosody. After con-
siderable study, however, I found myself still in an em-
barassing uncertainty as to several of the most funda-
mental questions involved, and it was clear that a pre-
liminary investigation of the historical origin of our verse-
forms was indispensable. All the topics most intimately
involved in this investigation have already provoked
separate discussion, but there has never been any satis-
factory coordination of results; and the lack of just this
has led to many hasty inferences. The purpose of this
paper is to trace the main line of descent of our modern
versification, from the classical quantitative verse and the
Old English accentual verse, through the various forms
that were cultivated in mediaeval Latin, English and
French.
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER I.
Introduction Page I The principle of parallelism
Page i
2 Syllabic verse
Page 2
3- Quantitative verse
Page 3
4 Accentual verse
Page 4
5 The decay of Greek versification
Page 4
6 Origin and decay of Latin quantitative versification
Page 6
7 The problems of late Latin verse
Page 8
8 The theory of a popular origin (for the Latin "rhythms")
Page 9
9 Popular verse of irregular rhythm (not syllabic)
Page 9
10 Conclusion
Page 12
CHAPTER II.
Commodian's verse II The importance of the subject
Page 13
12 Meyer's theory
Page 14
13 Objections to Meyer's theory 1 6 14 Commodian's use of dissyllables
Page 16
15 Commodian's use of polysyllables 1 8 16 The rationale of Commodian's verse 2O 17 Commodian's treatment of the caesura
Page 21
1 8 Concluding remarks '
Page 22
CHAPTER III.
The Latin Hymns of Ambrose and his Followers 19 Introductory remarks
Page 24
20 Ambrose
Page 25
21 Sedulius
Page 26
22 Fortunatus
Page 28
23 Substitution of accent for prosodical length
Page 30
24 Early hymns of uncertain date
Page 31
25 Ambrosian hymns of Adam of St Victor
Page 32
26 Trochaics of Adam of St Victor
Page 35
27 The invention of the initial inversion
Page 39
CHAPTER IV.
Early Church Music: Syllabic Verse 28 Introduction
Page 43
29 Greek music
Page 44
30 The music of Ambrose
Page 45
31 Music of the Roman Empire in general
Page 47
32 St Augustine's psalm
Page 48
33 The music of Augustine's psalm
Page 50
34 The two schools of church music 5 2 35 The influence of the church music on versification
Page 54
36 Contemporary accounts of the Latin rhythms
Page 57
37 Conclusion
Page 57
CHAPTER V.
Early French Verse 38 Introduction, 6> 39 Modern French verse
Page 64
40 The origin of French versification
Page 68
41 The earliest French octosyllabics
Page 70
42 The later development of French octosyllabics
Page 73
43 The difference between Latin and Old French verse ^
Page 75
44 Explanation of the difference
Page 77
45 Explanation of the change in French verse
Page 83
46 French Decasyllabics
Page 87
CHAPTER VI.
Latin and French Influence in English verse 47 Old English verse
Page 91
48 The decay of Old English verse
Page 92
49 Development of English verse under foreign influence
Page 94
50 Chaucer
Page 97
51 The syllabic principle in Modern English verse
Page 99
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